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Longsa: houses, sacrificial meat, cloth decoration, cotton work, ceremonial conveying of new carved morung pillar |
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We left Sagami for Longsa (15 miles - 126 miles from Kohima). Mills & I rode part of the way & walked the rest. There was a fine view of Wokha Hill (the "abode of the dead", the "roadway of the dead" showing clearly as a white streak below the top. A cave is said to exist there, but no one has visited it & it is almost unaccessible). Longsa village is a mile from the Inspection Bungalow. Two small bridges over deep ditches form the approach, one of two slender poles & the other a narrow plank. The houses face one another in "streets", the path along the streets is of the roughest description, being bare bed-rock & one must scramble up & down the rocks to get along. The houses are flat-fronted with walls of interlaced bamboo strips; the front gable overhangs considerably on the slope & there is an additional small overhang at the ridge. They are built on piles & have large platforms |
